From: "Marc Salomon" <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu>
Message-Id: <9607221145.ZM25990@home.ckm.ucsf.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:45:00 -0700
In-Reply-To: Jay Bazuzi <jaybaz@microsoft.com>
To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Acronym for Cougar?
Jay Bazuzi <jaybaz@microsoft.com>
<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM">HTML</SPAN> v. <ACRONYM>HTML</ACRONYM>
|This is an interesting idea that has show up a couple times here lately.
| To generalize your suggestion, what you seem to be proposing is that
|the tag name becomes an attribute of some generic, non-meaningful tag.
|Consider, for example, the following DTD snippet:
|
| <!ELEMENT TAG - - (#PCDATA | TAG)* >
| <!ATTLIST TAG
| ELEMNAME NAME #REQUIRED -- Element Name --
| >
Absolutely not. I am suggesting that the <SPAN> tag, the one in
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Cougar/HTML.dtd be used for its intended
purpose. The specially-marked-up content is still part of the general text
flow and structurally belongs in the content model of whatever contains it. not
locked up in an attribute.
-marc
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